The Revolutionary Society

On Freedom
~Kahlil Gibran

At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom,
Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them.
Ay, in the grove of the temple and in the shadow of the citadel I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff.
And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfilment.

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief,
But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

And how shall you rise beyond your days and nights unless you break the chains which you at the dawn of your understanding have fastened around your noon hour?
In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun and dazzle your eyes.

And what is it but fragments of your own self you would discard that you may become free?
If it is an unjust law you would abolish, that law was written with your own hand upon your own forehead.
You cannot erase it by burning your law books nor by washing the foreheads of your judges, though you pour the sea upon them.
And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.
For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?
And if it is a care you would cast off, that care has been chosen by you rather than imposed upon you.
And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.
These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling.
And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.
And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

Grand Master ..... I am true to my heart. I remain unswayed. But thank you. :side:

I bet you could make a Jedi Revolutionaries Facebook page in mere minutes.

That might be a more effective solution for you.

Too mainstream :laugh:

Silas Mercury wrote: Too mainstream :laugh:

How about MySpace? They've a long history of subversion.

Silas Mercury wrote: Grand Master ..... I am true to my heart. I remain unswayed. But thank you. :side:

You're welcome. But I'm not trying to sway you. I'm asking what binds you.

What binds me is either a fear of losing my self confidence or determination to change the world.

As soon as I saw this thread title, The whole thing played out in my mind. Like a script. No one disappointed


I have not truly poignant to offer, I think many of the things I may say have been said, or near enough as makes no difference.

So, some flippancy -

September 11th. We didn't do anything. Paris. Nice. Syria. Everywhere, people are dying, and we need to tqke the
reins.

Yes, everywhere people are dying. That's going to happen however you slice it.

I suppose you are talking about the ones that are being killed.

Killed by organisations that think their brand of truth is better than theirs, and go out of their way to travel to those countries and persuade them

Can anyone pound the universe down into dust for me and produce an ounce of "Good" or "Evil"?

I believe that looks better in All Caps

No thanks my friend. I'm too clever to trust in a world that would have me as its supreme leader. :lol:

Then again, why should I trust anyone else?

That's how they get you

"Be in charge, or we'll let someone else be in charge"

As I said, it would be a Council of people representing each country. Not necessarily a Jedi, but someone with whom we could do business.

I far from represent my country, but I am always willing to do business.
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What binds me is either a fear

Well, I hate to bring up SW....




Anyway Silas, Write your Charter. Persuade me that adding my will to your organisation benefits mankind.

I encourage you to do better than "They're evil, and need to be stopped" - I have as strong a hatred of windmills as any knight errant, but sometimes I'm not sure tilting is the way to go.


What will our fine and noble society do to progress this cause?

Our fine and noble society, or at least those who are fine and noble, will fight to the death for Peace. As Kyrin says in her signature, live for Peace but prepare for War. The world is moving on and old religions are in the way. So they either move with us, or slow down the advancement towards a better world.

Silas Mercury wrote: Our fine and noble society, or at least those who are fine and noble, will fight to the death for Peace. As Kyrin says in her signature, live for Peace but prepare for War. The world is moving on and old religions are in the way. So they either move with us, or slow down the advancement towards a better world.

I couldn't resist...